Justin Trudeau and Barack Obama just announced a plan to cut methane emissions from oil and gas drilling by 40-45% by 2025.

New York rubber-stamped a fracking ban this week, while the prospects for Pennsylvania’s shale industry darkened.

Saudi Arabia’s state-owned oil firm is luring laid-off American shale workers to frack the Middle East.

A flood of shale oil helped exports of non-crude petroleum product exports grow for the 13th consecutive year.

The number of active US rigs dropped to its lowest level since 2011, but it’s not time to panic yet.

While greens applauded Cuomo’s decision to ban fracking, many are concerned that the state is losing a crucial economic opportunity.

The fracking boom has unlocked massive new reserves of American natural gas, which to this point have largely been consumed domestically. But as the U.S. builds out its LNG export infrastructure, Europe is readying import terminals in an attempt to loosen Gazprom’s grip on the continent.

Drilling productivity in Texas’s Eagle Ford formation continues to improve, as drillers perfect their techniques and get more oil out of every well.

Oil prices just hit a ninth month low, in large part thanks to new supplies of North American crude. Shale both threatens Russia’s economy and blunts one of its biggest geopolitical weapons.

Thanks to fracking, the U.S. is dominating the refined petroleum products market. A new IEA report predicts that the rest of the world will jump on the shale bandwagon by the end of the decade, but America has built up an impressive head start.